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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 September 1890, Page 2

Mr A. D. Bell, the well-known barrister, will be a candidate for Wellington at the general election. There were eightesn members enrolled for the Knights of Labour on Wedneiday night. The Poatmaater has aome forms for claims for enrolment on the Eleotoral Roll, and a few forms can also be obtained at this offioe. A meeting of Mr J. Q. Wilson's committee was held on Wednesday evening, and another one is called for Thursday next. The school inspection and examination will be held on the 24th, 25th, and 26th instant. Wa remind our readers that to-morrow, at noon, the eon9tabl«, acting as bailiff, will s«ll at the Police Station the furniture seized, which is duly advertised in another column. The new Eleotoral 801 l will cause some astonishment when it appears, as we understand, that there are now close on 6000 names, with a probability of a Supplementary 801 l containing from 1000 to 1500 more. Messrs Pote Jr Terry have started the bakery lately run by Mr Brandon, and toast by selling cheaper and making a good article to receive a share of the trade. They have decided to cell the 41b loaf at seven pence. In another column will be found a notice, from Mr J. O. Wilson, to the electors announcing that owing to the large requisitions and support that has been tendered him he has decided to accede to the request, and become a candidate for the representation of this electorate. The man Nicholas Callograis was sentenced on Tuesday, at Wellington, to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour, for the assault on Edward Hartnett on the 11th instant, during the strike melee. The pedigree of the Stallion '•Prince Albert ' appears elsewhere. He is owned by Mr George Coley, and will stand for the season at the stables Moutoa road. The horse is in excellent condition and should command attention, as he is powerful and good-tempered. Mr Coley purchased him down South a few months ago, and has been working him until quite recently. The mechanioal milkman has been pronounced a Buccesg. An iron suction-tube is fitted round the cow-house, and indiarubber tubes are attached to the udder. A force-pump, worked by a hoy, supplies the auction, and six cows may be placed under requisition at once. An industrial workshop haR been opened at the East-end of London for about twenty tailoresses, who are to have work direct from the factory, and ara to receive threefourths of the sum paid for it, instead of less than one-half, which nt present is doled out by the sweater. The large Bums of money which the Government of India devote annually as rewards for the destruction of snakes in that country have brought about an unexpected and undesirable result. It seems, from a communication mado by the Chief Commissioners of the Central Province, that the natives of those parts are now beginning to breed and rear poisonous snakes for the purpose of obtaining the usual headmoney offered A Marriage in a Balloon.— Charles G. Stowel and Lottie E. Anderson were married in an anchored balloon in Lowell (Mass.) on Tuesday, the ceremony being witnessed by 10,000 persons. The clergyman, having tied the nuptial knot, left the happy couple in the balloon, the best man and bridesmaida also retiring to terra jUrma. The bridegroom, who is an accomplished balloonist, then " let go," and the air ship sailed gracefully towards the skies, amid the eheera of the crowd, who were not unreasonably excited by the novelty of a honeymoon in mid-air. A now and very charming use of the phonograph has been thought of in connection with the Stanley marriage. Colonel Gouraud presented to Mr Stanley a phonograph as a wedding present. There are euly four phonograph ma England. Three were in the Westminster Abbey during the wedding service. One placed in the Tower, to record the full sound of the wedding bells. The seaond phonograph waa placed by the organ to note the music and the Wedding March. The third was plaoed in the choir, and gave the hymn as sung by the voicea. Theae reoorda were presented by Colonel Gouraud to Mr and Mrs Stanley, so that at any time hereafter the wedding bells, the organ, and the voioes will sound as on the 12th, July, 1890. The Manawatu Timei, in its leader of Wednesday, says we ainoerely wish the labor party had selected some other candidate, more especially as Mr Pirtni assured ua he had no desire to atand. By his removal from our staff we loae a eonacientioua, hard working and able assistant whom it will be difficult to replaoe, and whose value has been appreciated by us during some years of active service. He now leaves a position In whioh he has been receiving a higher salary than an M. H. 8., for pursuit of the uncertain and rather empty honour of being a New Zealand legislator ; and we must confess that we fail to ace where the inducement lies. No breed of cattle seema to have attracted more attention at the Boyal Agricultural Show at Plymouth than the Kerry Dexters. This small breed of bla. k cattle claims the extreme mountainous part of the west of Ireland as the home of their ancestors. Of late years they have been coming to the front in every show yard, and gradually their value as a hardy, small, ornamental, breed of deep, rich milking qualities has been so thoroughly demonstrated that they aro being eagerly sought after. The purest Dexters are black, with a white, or partially white, udder, as showing milking propensities ; their height should be from 40 to 42 inches, and the depth round the chest close over the shoulder should be double the length from the top of tbe shoulder to the rump 1 a end. The horns rtluM.ild b« wide ojiart, and flvm tt th« base, slightly cwrod In-

The system of selling cattle by live weight, or at least of having an accurate knowledge of the live weight before making the bargain, is evidently making rapid headway in Scotland. Messrs John Swan and Son have had the weighbridge in their mart in Edinburgh for a long time and now Mossrs Oliver and Sou have had a large weighbridge fitted up at their mart iv Valleyfield-street. This machine was opened for use recently, and was much appreciated by the large number of agriculturists and butchers who were present at the ?a' .-.. Weighbridges aie also to be ereofced forthwith at the marts of Messrs Swan, Perth ; Messrs MUdleton and Duncan, both of Aberdeen ; and the Auotion Company, Castle Douglas,